I'm personally shocked people aren't happy about this anti-trust lawsuit against Google - it's a long time coming, so about bloody time!
Google is the biggest spyware in the world, and people are happy to be raped and used by them... but if Facebook do it, they're beaten down by governments, the media, and even nerds?!
Because Google has a hand in virtually all aspects of the web.
Anytime you send mail, it's very likely one of your recipients is using Google Mail, including companies, or your mail travels through their exchange. Otherwise, one of their dns resolvers might have a hand in your traffic. And if not, then either your browser (Chrome) or your phone (Android) will keep phoning home and reporting personal data, location, and pics to Google.
And even if that doesn't get you, then generally browsing any site on the web with their countless trackers (captcha, gstatic, fonts, cdn, analytics, doubleclick, gtm, ad manager, google plus tracker, maps, etc) will certainly get you or will break websites.
I believe Google has already been using browser fingerprinting for some time now, and you can see the result of this with their latest captcha, which no longer needs any input except your typing and mouse movements on a webpage.
APK: if you can invent an app to block domains/ip's at the router level for virtually any router on the market, then that would be something special and worth all your advertising time in comments!;)
Forget one little domain like facebook which can easily be blocked, what about the biggest data collector and serial tracker Google which is almost impossible to block?!
Pretty simple: using one of their countless javascript trackers, or through Chrome browser or Android.
Google has countless trackers all over the web, from doubleclick, analytics, captcha, to ad services, and tag manager, etc. Google is a serial tracker.
And if you know any amount of js, you'll realise how easy it is to fingerprint users using modern browsers, and the power a simple js script has over a page, including anything a user does from mouse movements, to keystrokes, etc.
It's quite interesting that companies like Apple and Mozilla are fighting for your rights and privacy, and yet it is these companies that get abused most often.
Far too many apps on the AppStore which utilise trackers of all sorts, most famous being Google analytics and other Google adware tools, but more so other companies that use advanced forms of fingerprinting such as playing sound / detecting sound outside the human listening wavelength as well as watching movement of fingers across the screen.
But seeing as Android and Windows 10 are now the most dominant OS globally, most sheep obviously don't care about their privacy (or they're clueless of it).
Perhaps you don't realise the main reason corporate environments are using IE is because it's bundled with Windows, available on every corporate machine; and best of all: it can be remotely configured / controlled / patched using domain controller / active directory rules and WSUS. And if things go wrong, they have license agreements with Microsoft, meaning dedicated support and swift responses.
Palemoon / Waterfox is maintained by 1 person... ONE; and at most, 2. Yes, there's been minor chip-ins from a few others, but look at the git commit history and it's basically a one-man show.
And seeing how fast tech is moving and standards are evolving, Palemoon/Waterfox/Variants are already far, far behind, especially in security fixes.
It's basically a dead project without some serious number of hands contributing to maintaining it! And that of course requires serious funding, or at least, some corporate sponsorship with lots of devs.
Web browsers are probably some of the most complex pieces of applications, perhaps more so than even Operating Systems, so it's unrealistic for any 1 person to maintain, let alone develop further.
Every blind-follower says exactly the same line: "you're doing agile wrong".
Every company I've worked at, using agile, they ALL appear to be "doing it wrong" - especially with micro-management ("daily stand-ups"), along with a blame process ("sprint review"), and a continuous sprint-cycle to ensure your devs are constantly on a treadmill and never have time to think, evaluate, and innovate!
What's worse is that it's some of the devs, who advocate for agile (i.e. blind followers), not knowing that it only benefits the business and management, especially in keeping a close eye on your devs and ensuring the company is getting their money-worth by keeping them on a treadmill ("sprint") of never-ending stress to deliver.
I was quite surprised (and saddened) to discover that Win10 has been the most popular Windows OS in Western nations for several months now, including America and Europe,overtaking Win7 around the beginning of 2017.
If people are sheep-enough to let Google use them with Android / Chrome, then it makes sense why Microsoft following their spying strategy will also succeed.
People simply don't know / don't care about their privacy.
Most people here have clearly never used ddg, otherwise they would know that ddg don't discriminate in their results; thus unlike google, they don't narrow your world view and only feed you left-wing or right-wing content (i.e. they don't bubble you). Thus, their search results come from hundreds of sources, including their own bot, and sometimes from yahoo, bing, and yandex.
I switched to duckduckgo almost 4 years ago now, completely. And I've never once visited google for at least over 6 years now! (before ddg, I was using bing)
Mod parent up please. Absolutely correct - it seems any application that performs calculations taking into account various factors, is now termed Artificial Intelligence!
It's just become a buzz word to attract business interests.
It's like the various buzz words before it - cloud; iot; big-data; ajax; xml; etc.
This is actually pretty impressive from Microsoft.
But I find it absolutely amazing that some people who advocate privacy and fight facebook/microsoft/apple in regards to data retention, completely forget about the biggest of all thefts and criminals: Google!
And more amazingly, the very same people go about using Chrome, Android, Google Mail, Search, etc! It's well known from Snowden's revelations that Google is the back office arm of NSA, to various degrees and extent.
Google has no problem in handing over any private/personal data, as long as there's money involved. Thus we never hear Google fighting for privacy, unlikeApple!
Nobel prize, particularly Nobel Peace prize is a joke anyway, hardly prestigious considering that it's been awarded to the likes of: -
* Obama - for doing nothing, except his job, with quite questionable policies; * Malala Yousafzai - for doing nothing, except running away from Taliban, seeking fame, and giving boring speeches, none of which are noteworthy; * Aung San Suu Kyi - for committing ethnic cleansing and genocide against her own people, the Rohingya.
It's some-what of an insult if someone one the Nobel Peace prize today for something genuinely great, and had to stand next to those people.
Particularly on a mobile device, even with "retina" display quality, I doubt there are many people who will notice any difference... except of course, geeks and those of us who concentrate really closely.
It's like the difference in mp3 between 192kbps and 128kbps encoding - most people won't be able to tell the difference, except musicians and audiophiles.
I'm sure they conducted a small scale research to see if anyone noticed. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if they already performed a/b testing against existing live customers.
Intel and AMD don't realize, apparently, that allowing backdoor spyware means the eventual end of their companies.
No, they realise very well, and that there's no other competitor besides them, especially if you go down the Windows route.
Consumers have no other choice, and especially coupled with the fact very few people appear to truly care about their privacy... you only have to look at the countless Android and Google users to realise how little people (even geeks) seem to care!
I don't think he's a troll, there's a point to be extracted from that.
I love Mozilla because of how much they've done for the web, from fighting for standardisation, HTML5, JavaScript, and building up one of the most complex applications around, to fighting a little for users' privacy, etc, but they deserve all the abuse they get for getting rid of the most natural leader (creator of JavaScript, no less, from the early days of Netscape) - and yes, it well and truly was a witch-hunt against him.
Without him as a leader, these days, it appears to most that Mozilla is just following in the wake Google's Chrome and copying everything from the outward design, to the extensions/addons system, etc.
It's a widely propagated myth by Linux evangelists, but in fact, all stats show that Linux kernel is far more vulnerable and unsecure as compared to Windows, including various Windows components/services (but excluding software like Internet Exploder). If you include software (such as IE) which is hardly used, then sure, Windows might come to more vulnerabilities.
I don't mean to rub it in, but it's quite remarkable that if we only count the Linux KERNEL (not including any of the distro's and other Linux OS components) between 2009 and 2017, had 1402 vulnerabilities; while Windows 7 (inc all components) had 792 vulnerabilities - i.e. 77% more vulnerabilities in Linux kernel compared to the entire Win7 OS!
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lol, superb reply!
Wish I had mod points!
I'm personally shocked people aren't happy about this anti-trust lawsuit against Google - it's a long time coming, so about bloody time!
Google is the biggest spyware in the world, and people are happy to be raped and used by them... but if Facebook do it, they're beaten down by governments, the media, and even nerds?!
Because Google has a hand in virtually all aspects of the web.
Anytime you send mail, it's very likely one of your recipients is using Google Mail, including companies, or your mail travels through their exchange. Otherwise, one of their dns resolvers might have a hand in your traffic.
And if not, then either your browser (Chrome) or your phone (Android) will keep phoning home and reporting personal data, location, and pics to Google.
And even if that doesn't get you, then generally browsing any site on the web with their countless trackers (captcha, gstatic, fonts, cdn, analytics, doubleclick, gtm, ad manager, google plus tracker, maps, etc) will certainly get you or will break websites.
I believe Google has already been using browser fingerprinting for some time now, and you can see the result of this with their latest captcha, which no longer needs any input except your typing and mouse movements on a webpage.
And the fact that Google and NSA have a nice little pact means they obviously have a past amount of personal data on individuals which even the NSA can't gather!
No, Windows 10 bypasses the "kernel level" hosts file.
And mozilla may also plan to perhaps bypass the local dns resolver in favour of "Trusted Recursive Resolver".
APK: if you can invent an app to block domains/ip's at the router level for virtually any router on the market, then that would be something special and worth all your advertising time in comments! ;)
Precisely, facebook can easily be blocked as it's just one or two domains, but what about the biggest privacy-breaching data-collector of them all - the serial tracker Google?!
Forget one little domain like facebook which can easily be blocked, what about the biggest data collector and serial tracker Google which is almost impossible to block?!
Pretty simple: using one of their countless javascript trackers, or through Chrome browser or Android.
Google has countless trackers all over the web, from doubleclick, analytics, captcha, to ad services, and tag manager, etc. Google is a serial tracker.
And if you know any amount of js, you'll realise how easy it is to fingerprint users using modern browsers, and the power a simple js script has over a page, including anything a user does from mouse movements, to keystrokes, etc.
It's quite interesting that companies like Apple and Mozilla are fighting for your rights and privacy, and yet it is these companies that get abused most often.
"I'm a little over San Francisco," said Patrick McKenna, the founder of High Ridge Venture Partners
Said the nobody.
Complaints about Silicon Valley insularity are as old as the Valley itself.
Slow news day huh?
Basically the sky-high prices for property is true for any major city in the world, from London, to Paris, and especially Hong Kong.
Far too many apps on the AppStore which utilise trackers of all sorts, most famous being Google analytics and other Google adware tools, but more so other companies that use advanced forms of fingerprinting such as playing sound / detecting sound outside the human listening wavelength as well as watching movement of fingers across the screen.
But seeing as Android and Windows 10 are now the most dominant OS globally, most sheep obviously don't care about their privacy (or they're clueless of it).
Perhaps you don't realise the main reason corporate environments are using IE is because it's bundled with Windows, available on every corporate machine; and best of all: it can be remotely configured / controlled / patched using domain controller / active directory rules and WSUS. And if things go wrong, they have license agreements with Microsoft, meaning dedicated support and swift responses.
+1 - up vote please!
Well said anon, thanks.
For the 99% majority, Quantum is a massive leap over XUL-based (old) monolithic Firefox!
Yes, I miss the xul interface of many addons, and I'd be interested to know the technical reasons why they couldn't redevelop it for multi-process FF?
Palemoon / Waterfox is maintained by 1 person... ONE; and at most, 2.
Yes, there's been minor chip-ins from a few others, but look at the git commit history and it's basically a one-man show.
And seeing how fast tech is moving and standards are evolving, Palemoon/Waterfox/Variants are already far, far behind, especially in security fixes.
It's basically a dead project without some serious number of hands contributing to maintaining it! And that of course requires serious funding, or at least, some corporate sponsorship with lots of devs.
Web browsers are probably some of the most complex pieces of applications, perhaps more so than even Operating Systems, so it's unrealistic for any 1 person to maintain, let alone develop further.
Every blind-follower says exactly the same line: "you're doing agile wrong".
Every company I've worked at, using agile, they ALL appear to be "doing it wrong" - especially with micro-management ("daily stand-ups"), along with a blame process ("sprint review"), and a continuous sprint-cycle to ensure your devs are constantly on a treadmill and never have time to think, evaluate, and innovate!
What's worse is that it's some of the devs, who advocate for agile (i.e. blind followers), not knowing that it only benefits the business and management, especially in keeping a close eye on your devs and ensuring the company is getting their money-worth by keeping them on a treadmill ("sprint") of never-ending stress to deliver.
Hate to defend an illegible spammer like APK, but he appears to be right in blocking certain ports used by Intel AMT.
Err no it's not.
I was quite surprised (and saddened) to discover that Win10 has been the most popular Windows OS in Western nations for several months now, including America and Europe,overtaking Win7 around the beginning of 2017.
And sadly, Win10 is now only 2% behind Win7 as being the most popular Windows OS in the World.
If people are sheep-enough to let Google use them with Android / Chrome, then it makes sense why Microsoft following their spying strategy will also succeed.
People simply don't know / don't care about their privacy.
DuckDuckGo isn't based solely on bing, they use hundreds of sources, including their own bot, and sometimes Yahoo, Bing, and Yandex.
Oh, and they also fight for your rights.
People keep spreading lies about such a great company, who constantly give a lot back to open source projects, privacy, and other freedom organisations.
Most people here have clearly never used ddg, otherwise they would know that ddg don't discriminate in their results; thus unlike google, they don't narrow your world view and only feed you left-wing or right-wing content (i.e. they don't bubble you). Thus, their search results come from hundreds of sources, including their own bot, and sometimes from yahoo, bing, and yandex.
Third, yes, you can customise duckduckgo to regional searches and well as other parameters.
I switched to duckduckgo almost 4 years ago now, completely. And I've never once visited google for at least over 6 years now! (before ddg, I was using bing)
Mod parent up please.
Absolutely correct - it seems any application that performs calculations taking into account various factors, is now termed Artificial Intelligence!
It's just become a buzz word to attract business interests.
It's like the various buzz words before it - cloud; iot; big-data; ajax; xml; etc.
This is actually pretty impressive from Microsoft.
But I find it absolutely amazing that some people who advocate privacy and fight facebook/microsoft/apple in regards to data retention, completely forget about the biggest of all thefts and criminals: Google!
And more amazingly, the very same people go about using Chrome, Android, Google Mail, Search, etc!
It's well known from Snowden's revelations that Google is the back office arm of NSA, to various degrees and extent.
Google has no problem in handing over any private/personal data, as long as there's money involved. Thus we never hear Google fighting for privacy, unlike Apple!
This should be hugely modded up;
As it pretty much answers the post and makes it redundant.
Nobel prize, particularly Nobel Peace prize is a joke anyway, hardly prestigious considering that it's been awarded to the likes of: -
* Obama - for doing nothing, except his job, with quite questionable policies;
* Malala Yousafzai - for doing nothing, except running away from Taliban, seeking fame, and giving boring speeches, none of which are noteworthy;
* Aung San Suu Kyi - for committing ethnic cleansing and genocide against her own people, the Rohingya.
It's some-what of an insult if someone one the Nobel Peace prize today for something genuinely great, and had to stand next to those people.
Particularly on a mobile device, even with "retina" display quality, I doubt there are many people who will notice any difference... except of course, geeks and those of us who concentrate really closely.
It's like the difference in mp3 between 192kbps and 128kbps encoding - most people won't be able to tell the difference, except musicians and audiophiles.
I'm sure they conducted a small scale research to see if anyone noticed.
In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if they already performed a/b testing against existing live customers.
Intel and AMD don't realize, apparently, that allowing backdoor spyware means the eventual end of their companies.
No, they realise very well, and that there's no other competitor besides them, especially if you go down the Windows route.
Consumers have no other choice, and especially coupled with the fact very few people appear to truly care about their privacy... you only have to look at the countless Android and Google users to realise how little people (even geeks) seem to care!
* I didn't mention Apple, because they are the only major company who appear to care for the privacy of their users and fighting against Gov surveillance.
Parent should be modded-up.
I don't think he's a troll, there's a point to be extracted from that.
I love Mozilla because of how much they've done for the web, from fighting for standardisation, HTML5, JavaScript, and building up one of the most complex applications around, to fighting a little for users' privacy, etc, but they deserve all the abuse they get for getting rid of the most natural leader (creator of JavaScript, no less, from the early days of Netscape) - and yes, it well and truly was a witch-hunt against him.
Without him as a leader, these days, it appears to most that Mozilla is just following in the wake Google's Chrome and copying everything from the outward design, to the extensions/addons system, etc.
It's a widely propagated myth by Linux evangelists, but in fact, all stats show that Linux kernel is far more vulnerable and unsecure as compared to Windows, including various Windows components/services (but excluding software like Internet Exploder). If you include software (such as IE) which is hardly used, then sure, Windows might come to more vulnerabilities.
And what's more, Microsoft patch vulnerabilities far faster (within a couple of month), compared to Linux, which may take up to 2 years before releasing a patch.
I don't mean to rub it in, but it's quite remarkable that if we only count the Linux KERNEL (not including any of the distro's and other Linux OS components) between 2009 and 2017, had 1402 vulnerabilities; while Windows 7 (inc all components) had 792 vulnerabilities - i.e. 77% more vulnerabilities in Linux kernel compared to the entire Win7 OS!